in reply to Using Mailx

The security-minded answer is "don't ever use mailx". It's a big security hole waiting to happen since you cannot disable tilde escaping.

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Re^2: Mailx question
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 11, 2011 at 07:57 UTC
    Tilde escaping is disabled as soon as mailx gets input from a "non tty". So if you pipe the input into mailx, tilde escaping should be off.